hello & welcome to our house
It’s January 2025 and the sun is still setting before dinner, inviting an intoxicating shade of winter blue into the reflection of my frosty windows - a type of serene blue kissed by the chill of winter's air. The condensation from the heat of the oven hugs the corners of the windows and become panes of icy lace. And the feeling of home is undeniable.
It’s not just warmth and coziness. It’s not conventional beauty. It’s being surrounded by familiarity. The way the sun is setting is familiar. The smell of dinner in the oven is familiar. The sound of juvenile entertainment coming from my kids iPads and the faint sound of music playing through my nearby bluetooth speaker, spinning vinyl from another room, it’s intentional. It’s familiar. It’s my home.
It’s the space I created with my bare hands. Some parts of my home I’ve literally built using my own 2 hands. Artwork on the wall, I’ve carefully chosen. And some, I, myself, have created: conjured up in my own mind, and followed through with my own hands. The food cooking in the oven, I’ve grown some of the ingredients with my 2 hands. Assembled them together using recipes past down from the familial women before me. The table I’m sitting at, took me years to find. It was chosen intentionally for the people in this house and the lifestyle that we live. In the center of the table is a ceramic bowl made by a local female artist…from her own imagination where she used clay as a canvas for her creativity. Clay that comes from the very earth that my home is also resting on. I chose that ceramic bowl. It was intentional. My eyes found it in a sea of other equally beautiful creations at a Mother’s Day craft fair so many years ago. It looks perfect sitting there on my table and in my home. This thing that I intentionally picked.
These are little moments, or some could say vignettes. Little moments that could be poetically described or even artfully captured as still photographic imagery. Little moments that are curated with things. And those were carefully created. And then intentionally chosen for my home…my style…my lifestyle.
This intentionality is not reserved for just creatives. I just happen to be a creative. This intentionality within my home, I share that with you. The things in my home, though different from your home, are still chosen. Still curated. Still intentional. Within the animal kingdom, it’s what we do. We create our habitat: a place where an organism makes its home. The reasons to which we make our house a home, however, may also differ. Vogelkopf Bower Birds decorate the area around their nests to prove their suitability as mates. Perhaps you do the same. What you decide to surround yourself with (that is, how you to choose to decorate) may be motivated by a myriad of reasons, But what you’re always looking to accomplish, is to create a home. To create that ultimate level of comfort; where it smells great, looks great, and feels great.
And that’s what House of Thayer is here to do. Following in the footsteps of our design heroes, we won’t advocate to fill your house (or ours) with lots of ‘stuff’; only things that are created with intention. For both their beauty and their purpose. Our designs and product offerings are about championing sustainability and craftmanship. We’re here to contribute to the beauty of home interiors as well as act as stewards of the Earth. At our atelier, we’ll show you our tools and steps within the production process. We’re not hiding our designs. We want you to see these moments. For us, moments of creation. For you, moments of inspiration.
At House of Thayer, we’re inspired by the hands of past, and created with modern sensibility. Built upon the foundations of creativity with purpose and integrity of our planet, we seek to create unique and inspiring designs that will stand the test of time.
As I sit in my own comfortable, familiar, & curated personal home, I extend the invitation for you to come to our house - our House of Thayer - to help you intentionally choose non-toxic products for your own space. They might be vintage. Or handmade. You might find something that my own hands made or Jerri designed. Your eyes might be drawn to something small but so significant that you can’t see anything else in a room filled with other creations. You might get inspired and decide to engage us in a custom design: something truly one of kind that is intentionally designed, made and curated for you and by you. Something that is perfect. For you. For your life. For your home.
The January blues have darkened to black. Night has arrived and this evening is fit for the amber glow of candlelight. A warm amber color that dances shadows across the walls of my home and emits a fragrance so powerful, that it transports me back to a place and time reserved only for my memory. It’s a welcoming reminder of the comfort of home.
Welcome to our House of Thayer.
